NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2550MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (736.3GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

8640 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (294W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +2150%

52.22 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Jan 2024

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 40

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2295 MHz

Base Clock

-

2550 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1438 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

736.3GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

80

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

10240

Shading Units

1600

320

TMUs

80

112

ROPs

32

320

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

285.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

816.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

52.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

52.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

816.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

Hemlock

AD103-400-A1

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

40 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

294W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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